Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-07
lEmARs TO YANkIoh,


LEmARs TO YANKT0h.
A EocAl Movement TO Construct q Much
Needed Railroad.
In The LeMaTs Sentinel of last Friday
We find the following fragment OF rail-
road information:
A movement is now on foot to build
q railroad from LeMars TO Yankton.
The proposition rs Tor the property
holders residing along this line to build
and to v the road 80 they can lease or
sell 80 any operating company. The sng-
gestlon Is to vote q tax and grade the
line with the money. This may be done
40 chat g part Of the tax can be paid
year for such q period as will make
the barden q hight q Fol every dol
lar paid stock will be issued, SO that in
reality the enterprise only requires our
cooperation and credit until placed up
on its feet.
This movement will place the people
along this line III position to dictate to
the railroad companies instead OF being
dictated to by them. The tax could be
largely paid IN work and if not in that
way, the expense Of building the road
would be money paid ont right along
where the work was done. II would
attract new corners all along tho line
and appreciate the value OF land far
moro than the amount OF the tax. As
Q business NOV 1t is worthy Of our
careful attention and active work. Il is
not worth while going around empty
handed begging corporations to look at
40. We are big enough to constitute q
corporation.of our own. The building Of .
road to Yankton will bring an eastern
connection with Chicago via Des MONIES.
The Rock Island IL already anxious to
extend it's line, now terminating 81
Guthrie Center, MP this way and there
10 no moro favorable section for . pay
ing railroad than from Guthrie Center
to Yankton via LeMars. Just squint al
the trap.
This is Q project, always held in The
highest favor among Yankton people
Six OF seven years ago Yankton went te
LeMars with . proposition involving
the construction OF Just such q Lint
as the n above out.
lined by the Sentinel. At that time II
Mars was not ripe for the undertaking
and il was permitted to slumber. Blu,
1t 10 now brought forward as q LIE Mar
proposition and % such il will be re-
ceiyed with enthusiastic favor by til,
people of Yankton. Ali that any com
munity could do In behalf OF . projec
will be done by Yankton. 4 few year
ago orr citizens invested fifteen hundred
dollars n . survey and profile OF TN
route and shis profile is still held snbjeo
TO the order Of any organization whicl
will build the road. It shows an cas-.
and comparatively inexpensive lin
through Q region which would make
paying railroad from the day the car
start. Lie Mars can secure hearty co
operation by communicating with Yank
toms board OF trade.
FROM HARRINGTON TO yAHKToN.
Relative to the extension Of ths North
western from Harrington to Yankton 70
which We have corroberative evidence o
. reliable natnral .heSHss.ins.onI Demo
crat says:
The continued rnmor that the Har
tington branch OF the o., 81, p, RI. & o
railroad In to be extended the coming
season 10 NOT without foundation. Th,
| latest information we have on the poini
is from o conversation had between
Sheriff Anderson and one Of the way ri
officials of the road. The report is TO tn
eject that the branch, instead of run
ming in o northerly direction, will tax
an easterly course. tapping the ricl
county down tho valley Of the Bow
thence northwesterly through one OF it
tributaries to Yankton. The onl.
hypothesis by which this propose,
mean iering course of the roa,
can be accounted for Is the fac
that % . small vein leading to one OF th
great arteries OF the g., st. P, NJ. & G
the Harrington branch does not pay 10
ita running snd that to accomplish thi
latter object, as we'll as this swelling @
the greater stream Of traf1c, the territor,
described must be reached. just wha
effect the extension OF the road will hnv
upon the village OK Harrington 10 3 ma
tel. Of speculation. We do not bsliev
that It can be other than beneficial. Tn
greater part Of Cedar county would the,
be tributary to Harrington NOT only b.
roadway but by railway. AZ the matte
now stands, Vermillion and Tankto,
during the winter months absorb . larR
trade that rightfully belongs to Harting
ton. Given the facilities Harrington
can successfully compete Tor this trace.
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